the said office of Chancellor, and the great charges and expenses which he must necessarily undergo for the decent and honourable support of the dignity of that great place, and the acceptable services done to the King and his father, as also of the smallness of the standing fee and perquisites belonging to said office, had resolved that he should wholly employ himself in the execution and charge of that great office and place, and those he trusts and employs; to which end and purpose his Majesty, of his bounty, for reward of his good services, and as an especial mark of favour towards him, and for his better support in his office, gave him £500 a-year during his continuance in that office, by Privy Seal, dated at West- minster, 15 July, and by patent at Dublin, 26 August 1640.—16 Car. I. 2a pars d. R. 14.
Richard Pepys, Chief Justice K. B., Sir G. Lowther, Chief Justice C. P., Miles Corbet, Chief Baron—Commissioners of the Great Seal under Oliver Cromwell—Privy Seal, 14 June, 1655. "Oliver Protector: Right trusty and right well beloved Counsellor, we greet you well. It being our will and pleasure that our trusty and well-beloved Richard Pepys, our Chief Justice, assigned to hold pleas before us in our Court of Upper Bench in Ireland, Sir Gerrard Lowther, our Chief Justice of our Court of Common Bench in Ireland, and Miles Corbet, our Chief Baron of our Exchequer there, be Commissioners of our Great Seal of Ireland, and have power to rule and manage the
